Posted on 04/23/2021 9:06:59 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Four-year-old Max Pratt is known for bringing packages into the house for his mom.
That task turned dangerous on Thursday when a 100-pound box was delivered to the Chicago-area home and fell on Max as he tried to carry it inside.
"I was scared I was going to fall down the stairs," Max told WBBM.
Doorbell camera at the home captures Max screaming for help.
Then, it shows the UPS driver who had just delivered the package rushing to the rescue.
"I was saying help and the package man just came back," Max said.
The driver, Marco Angel, didn't hesitate to cross a busy highway when he saw the boy in trouble.
"As soon as I saw the package tilt, I just started running back to it," he told the news station. "I pictured my boys in his situation obviously and you go into full parent mode, full dad mode."
Now, Max is doing okay and enjoying the item that came in the box that fell on him: a new hammock.
His parents were able to thank Angel over a video call and told him his actions lived up to his last name.
Since the incident, Max's parents have also talked to him about not opening the front door unless an adult is around.
A 4-year old that can even budge a 100 lb package. wow.
great story , great outcome
Evidently it contained 100lbs worth of hammock! Would never guess a hammock—even with packing—would weigh so much.
When we lived in Georgia on of our son’s classmates died when he went into a construction site and a load of drywall fell over onto him, trapping him overnight. When construction workers found him the next morning he was still alive but he died in the hospital. This boy was lucky someone saw him get trapped.
That happened to me when I was 13. I was walking through a house under construction where big stack or drywall was on edge in a framed interior doorway. I was rushing to go downstairs and placed my hand on the drywall and it pinned me standing against the opposite jamb crushing the air from my chest.
My buddy was downstairs and heard me gurgle “help” with my last escaping breath. Pinned like a butterfly.
“If you have time to lean, you have time to scream!” I have seen the same thing happen on job sights where people lean Sheetrock and doors against walls. My heavy deliveries are always laid flat by UPS. It’s a pain in the ass, but it can’t hurt anybody.
Max’s momma is hot.
I put a bail of hay out for the goats and set it on a pallet. One of the goats pushed it off the pallet and it rolled on to the week old goat kid. I happened to go back out minutes later and heard it. Every time her momma took a bite of hay, the kid would bleat because she pushed the bale down when taking a bite. Bleat, bleat, bleat with every bite. I had to laugh. I rolled the bale off of her and she was fine.
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